Identity Crisis

Dear Friend,

It’s interesting to know that God will never give up on you no matter what. I’ve been priviledged to hear the same message through my pastor and friends; your life is precious to God, you are a wonderful person, your life and giftings will not be wasted.

The truth is this…….God ain’t gonna let go, He’s invested so much in YOU!!!!! You are not an abandoned project; God is just ensuring that everything works out for your good because He has called you into fellowship with His son Jesus Christ our Lord. He is only setting your feet on the path to destiny and securing your eternity and guess what? He is faithful to bring it to pass.

Today, we live in a society and a world where there is little occurrence (and in most cases no such occurrences) of the physical persecution suffered by the early apostles such as being thrown in a pot of hot boiling oil, beheaded, cut into pieces, etc. The apostles were challenged with persecutions that attacked their physical beings and immediately eliminated them from the earth.

Contrary to the opinions of many, I dare to state that we are currently facing more persecutions than any of the early apostles. Today, the persecutions we face directly attack the foundations of our faith, our Christian virtues and values and the very essence of God. The persecutions do not even attempt to physically eliminate us from the earth, but rather aim at destroying what makes us Christians and change us to conform to the dictates of the society such as homosexuality, abortion, drugs, cultism, transgender, fornication, corruption, violence, cheating, masturbation, etc.

Today’s Christian is daily challenged with the loss of his identity (an identity crisis) and the death of his soul by gradually compromising God’s standards and making a mockery of the very principles that sustain his growth. The persecutions today seek to erode your identity in Christ Jesus (which is the only identity you have, once you have died to self and taken up the nature of Christ). Once this occurs, the Christian losses his purpose and just exists for existence sake but he is spiritually dead and has fallen from the position of grace. This can be likened to a lion grazing in the fields with sheep. It’s an abnormality for a lion (carnivore and king of the animal kingdom) to eat grass (lack understanding of his nature and feed on grass like herbivore) and fellowship with ordinary animals (sheep). This is most disheartening but sadly this is the persecution we are facing in this era.

The fact that we live in a relatively free society, where we can have liberty to do anything should enhance our resolute to live for God but this does not hold true for many who have gone astray.

I strongly believe that we are equipped to overcome these challenges; we need to consistently tap into God’s grace and inner strength from Christ Jesus to become true overcomers and glorious victors in Christ.

God will sustain you by the power of his love for you till the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.